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William Du Bois's paternal great-grandfather was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with enslaved women. [9] One of James' mixed-race sons was Alexander, who was born on Long Cay in the Bahamas in 1803; in 1810, he immigrated to the United States with his father ...
Joseph Dubois, also spelled DuBois (July 9, 1767 - August 27, 1798), was an American silversmith, active in New York City. Dubois was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey and married Sarah Van Dyck about 1796 in New York City, where he worked from 1789 to 1794 as a silversmith at 17 Great Dock Street, 1790 to 1793, and from 1794 to 1797 as a ...
Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846), French illustrator, lithographer, archaeologist and curator at the Louvre museum; Louis DuBois (Huguenot) (died 1696), Huguenot colonist in New Netherland; Macy DuBois (1929–2007), Canadian architect; Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831-1885), American domestic worker, mother of W.E.B. Du Bois (see above)
The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America (1894) was W. E. B. Du Bois's doctoral thesis for Harvard University which he finished while teaching at Wilberforce University. [1] This thesis made Du Bois the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard. [2] [additional citation(s) needed]
Florent Michel Marie Joseph du Bois de La Villerabel (29 September 1877 – 7 February 1951), archbishop of Aix, Arles and Embrun (1940–1944), was the most prominent of seven French mainland or colonial bishops who, in the aftermath of the Liberation, were obliged to submit their resignations to Pope Pius XII because of their close collaboration with the Germans during the German occupation ...
The book studies the early and middle years of Du Bois's life. It is the first in a two-part biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994, as did Lewis's second installment, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963, winning the Pulitzer in 2001. [1]
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The book deals with Du Bois's involvement in the Harlem Renaissance, his fight for equality and justice, and the Communist witch-hunts that ultimately left him rejected and exiled in Ghana. Like the first part of the Lewis's study, which won in 1994, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2001, making Lewis the first ...